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AnacondaHL posted:Do people really need more than 8 years worth of J.C. Staff shows to figure out if they're going to like a J.C. Staff show without watching it? I'm gonna be honest, I have no idea what you mean by this. I'll admit I don't know much about all the different studios, but I didn't think the animation was that bad.
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I have to say my favourite part of this episode was probably the hype as gently caress flames that came off Kagari while they were in the torture room.
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Feb 18, 2014 23:42
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Sleeping Sigma posted:I'm gonna be honest, I have no idea what you mean by this. (Obviously I say most of this in jest) It means in 2006 J.C. Staff realized they could sustain profit by producing the same romantic-interest character-based show over and over again because of their above-average production values. It may be the comfortable, formulaic consistency itself that contributes most to their success. And I don't blame them, they got families to feed, and I'm amused by their products, so all is well, but I know when a show is trying to Go For The Big One, and in this time period that does not describe any J.C. Staff show, hence why "wishing more people would watch this" seems futile to me.
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Feb 18, 2014 23:42
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Conot posted:I have to say my favourite part of this episode was probably the hype as gently caress flames that came off Kagari while they were in the torture room. The flame buddies and Team Rocket are consistently great. One thing I've noticed is that the episodes follow a given chapter or chapters almost panel for panel, but I didn't remember the punishment room having any of that "Let me out, mama" stuff, and I couldn't find any traces of it from skimming over the relevant chapters. That kind of paints Kazane in a super bad light when she's really just supposed to be just a mostly comically terrible person. Also they didn't use the best interpretation of the joke about Kazane: Dumbshoe Kazane. 
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Feb 20, 2014 08:04
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For supposedly badass delinquents, a lot of them were wearing hamster-ish costumes. Also, those Tower witches can be really lazy. 
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Mar 1, 2014 09:28
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Kleptobot posted:For supposedly badass delinquents, a lot of them were wearing hamster-ish costumes. I mean honestly, if you had control over a bunch of animated bunny golems wouldn't you use them to do menial chores too? They're literally slaves that don't complain or rebel!
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Mar 1, 2014 09:29
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pandaK posted:I mean honestly, if you had control over a bunch of animated bunny golems wouldn't you use them to do menial chores too? They're literally slaves that don't complain or rebel! And it's not like anybody in town would even give a poo poo if they saw them. This is a place where middle school students have alligator or llama pets and a school has a tank in it for no apparent reason. I enjoyed the tower witches making cameos in the flashback scenes in this episode. The Team Rockets in any given show are often the best part.
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Mar 1, 2014 09:34
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What do bunny golems talk about on those long walks back home from the grocery store? There could be a whole bunny golem society which revolves around their own bunny golem culture and media, but the world may never know.
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Mar 1, 2014 09:37
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This show has finally started in earnest with the visual gags, which was always the best part of the manga. Also, Honoka really takes after his mother.
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Mar 1, 2014 10:19
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Why...why was there a tank just randomly hanging out around the school? The fact that stuff like that comes up and nobody even bats an eye at it is what really makes me love this series.
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Mar 1, 2014 16:15
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A friend got me watching this, and while it's decent, I think it's an excuse to watch the ED that keeps me coming back. It's so goddamn catchy
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Mar 1, 2014 20:21
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chumbler posted:And it's not like anybody in town would even give a poo poo if they saw them. This is a place where middle school students have alligator or llama pets and a school has a tank in it for no apparent reason. Do the bunnies fall under the same rules as witches in that they can't be seen by normal folk?
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Mar 1, 2014 20:26
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I think my biggest problem with the show is how boring all of the "protagonists" are, or at least as they are presented so far. I suppose the line between good and bad is pretty blurry in this, but I mean the main character just seems really two dimensional as far as male anime protagonists go, before Honoka became "involved" in all of the witchcraft business what exactly was it that he did to wile the hours away? (aside from collecting penguin plushes). It could just be that SnK was the last real anime/manga I got into but Ayaka is pretty much the exact same archtype as Mikasa in just about every way, it's great to have strong female protagonists but it seems really self defeating to give them literally no personality beyond "I love male protagonist X." It just seems weird to me to make every other character besides the protagonists infinitely more likeable, if only because they have personalities.
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AndroidHub posted:Ayaka is pretty much the exact same archtype as Mikasa in just about every way, it's great to have strong female protagonists but it seems really self defeating to give them literally no personality beyond "I love male protagonist X."
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Mar 2, 2014 03:48
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Paracelsus posted:That's kinda the basis for the running gag of the series, though; it's a modified manzai act where Kagari is the competent and dangerous boke and Takamiya is the hapless tsukommi. I stopped reading the manga mostly because of this - I mean, it's like the author thought, "oh man let me just create a couple of cardboard cutouts for main characters and lampshade how low effort they are, that'll be a funny joke." But lampshaded or not, at the end of the day it's still low effort and we have two main characters with no character. It would be fine if it was a couple of side characters or something but these are our leads, and man can I not be bothered to give half a poo poo.
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Che Delilas posted:I stopped reading the manga mostly because of this - I mean, it's like the author thought, "oh man let me just create a couple of cardboard cutouts for main characters and lampshade how low effort they are, that'll be a funny joke." But lampshaded or not, at the end of the day it's still low effort and we have two main characters with no character. It would be fine if it was a couple of side characters or something but these are our leads, and man can I not be bothered to give half a poo poo. Just ignore the two leads as much as possible, then. The fancy detailed art and background gags are the main appeals.
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Mar 2, 2014 07:02
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Serious Frolicking posted:Just ignore the two leads as much as possible, then. The fancy detailed art and background gags are the main appeals. Agreed. I'm watching the show for Tanpopo-chan and Friends' antics.
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Che Delilas posted:I stopped reading the manga mostly because of this - I mean, it's like the author thought, "oh man let me just create a couple of cardboard cutouts for main characters and lampshade how low effort they are, that'll be a funny joke." But lampshaded or not, at the end of the day it's still low effort and we have two main characters with no character. It would be fine if it was a couple of side characters or something but these are our leads, and man can I not be bothered to give half a poo poo. I think it's more of a case that the mangaka has more of a talent for detailed drawings than for storytelling. Because the artwork is definitely beautiful.
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Mar 2, 2014 11:58
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One thing I like about the show is how twisted each characters are but at the same time but in a playful way. Another thing is how the main characters don't stand-out as much, leaving the side characters to shine. I hope the show never gets too serious.
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Takamiya trying really hard not to be a shoujo heroine and failing miserably, and Ayaka just generally being kind of weird and often creepy never gets old for me, personally. But really the main draw remains the little background details and general fanciness and bizarreness of the series.
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Ayaka is like 8 feet tall and inscrutable, but she fails the shoujo love interest test by not being incredibly thin and a huge rear end in a top hat.
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Well, she does fit the creepy stalker archetype, what with watching him sleep. I think Ayaka is hilarious and pretty much makes the show. Honoka is just there to be the straight man to the incessant insanity of all witches.
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Episode 9 Once again, even with less than 5% of the total screen-time, Tanpopo-chan and Friends still manage to be the highlight of the episode. 
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JosephWongKS posted:Episode 9 That holds for the manga, so it's not surprising that it holds for the anime. The art is gorgeous, the writing, not so much. He appears to be going the same route at Oh!Great.
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buzmeg posted:That holds for the manga, so it's not surprising that it holds for the anime. God, no. While the story isn't great it is recognizable as a story and not some stream of consciousness bullshit interspersed with fight scenes and tits.
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Mar 3, 2014 21:06
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buzmeg posted:He appears to be going the same route at Oh!Great.
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Paracelsus posted:We won't know that until it turns out that both the Tower and the Workshop are being run by Barack Obama. Wait this sounds amazing what am I missing?
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Mar 3, 2014 22:23
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It's not nearly as amusing and you're probably hoping/expecting.
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AnacondaHL posted:Wait this sounds amazing what am I missing? Air Gear spoilers: Around the time I stopped reading, a certain senator then running for the US presidency named "John Omaha" entered the plot for... uh... some reason, ended up switching bodies with a Japanese girl, and teamed up with the main guy. If I understand correctly (as far as it's possible to understand the latter parts of an Oh!Great "plot"), the endgame was that the good guys stopped a nefarious plot to provide free energy that would allow the world's poor to lift themselves out of poverty. Or something like that.
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Paracelsus posted:Air Gear spoilers: Around the time I stopped reading, a certain senator then running for the US presidency named "John Omaha" entered the plot for... uh... some reason, ended up switching bodies with a Japanese girl, and teamed up with the main guy. If I understand correctly (as far as it's possible to understand the latter parts of an Oh!Great "plot"), the endgame was that the good guys stopped a nefarious plot to provide free energy that would allow the world's poor to lift themselves out of poverty. Or something like that. He did this because he opposed the idea of people just being given privilege like that since he believed people should motivate themselves to become better. It's hilarious because his entire life has been supported by everyone around him up to that point. He would be a loving nobody if he wasn't as immensely privileged as he was.
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Holy poo poo. I would have never guessed that Aya Hirano was the person voicing Weekend in a million years.
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Paracelsus posted:Air Gear spoilers: Around the time I stopped reading, a certain senator then running for the US presidency named "John Omaha" entered the plot for... uh... some reason, ended up switching bodies with a Japanese girl, and teamed up with the main guy. If I understand correctly (as far as it's possible to understand the latter parts of an Oh!Great "plot"), the endgame was that the good guys stopped a nefarious plot to provide free energy that would allow the world's poor to lift themselves out of poverty. Or something like that. Wow. I'm glad I stopped reading that when it was still about people battling on rollerskates.
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Air Gear was a loving experience, man.
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New translated chapter has appeared on the internet, don't read if you haven't already, might be spoiled on how this show will end (unless a season 2 magically appears). Having skimmed the related manga chapters it seems to me that Weekend plays Batman to Kazane's Superman. Probably oversimplifying but I'm speaking more in terms of powers than character. While I'm playing the comic metaphor game, Chronoire is the Joker, throwing a wrench into the mix.
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If you're reading/watching this for Tanpopo and company, the latest chapter is a pretty good Tanpopo one that's pretty much self-contained.
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Nate RFB posted:If you're reading/watching this for Tanpopo and company, the latest chapter is a pretty good Tanpopo one that's pretty much self-contained. I like how Kagari just grabs her head and starts squeezing, no fancy magic necessary. Also the bar with all soda/milk/juice and candy instead of pretzels. And  the sister is even worse than I thought, that bath scene. 
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Nate RFB posted:If you're reading/watching this for Tanpopo and company, the latest chapter is a pretty good Tanpopo one that's pretty much self-contained. Flipping over to page 18 was an amazing thing to do. I should have expected it, but it still killed me.
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I like how there's apparently been a Godzilla situation with a giant penguin attacking the city in the background for the past couple of chapters and no one's paying it any attention. Like, whatever, happens all the time.
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Kasumi really needs to talk to someone about that decoupage habit of hers.
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